From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Grady Ward
Grady Ward
William Grady Ward (born April 4, 1951) is an American Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, but to date it has not been
software engineer, lexicographer, and Internet activist violated by either party.
who has featured prominently in the Scientology versus
the Internet controversy.
Prior to his opposition to Scientology practices,
See also
Grady Ward compiled the Moby Project, an extensive • PGP word list
compilation of English language lexical resources and in
1996 released it to the public domain. One of its compo-
nents, Moby Thesaurus, has more than 2.5 million syn-
External links
onyms and related words, making it the largest thesaurus • Works by Grady Ward at Project Gutenberg
in the English language as of early 2006.[1] Previously,
Ward was known for compiling and distributing a public Notes
domain version of the complete works of William Shake-
speare, Moby Shakespeare, which has been credited as be- [1] "Moby at Project Gutenberg".
ing the most widely distributed works of Shakespeare in http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3202.
the world.[2] [2] "Moby Shakespeare". http://www.shaksper.net/
In 1993 his publisher, the Austin Code Works was in- archives/2004/1098.html.
vestigated as to the export of strong cryptography.[3] The [3] "Wired’s article on US Government investigation of
US government at the time treated cryptographic soft- cryptography export". http://www.wired.com/
ware above a certain strength as the legal equivalent of wired/archive/1.06/eword.html.
munitions and restricted them accordingly. Ward spent [4] "Passphrase FAQ". http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/
time developing source code fragments collectively ~conrad/krypto/passphrase-faq.html.
called Moby Crypto to encourage the pervasive devel- [5] "EFF resources on the NSA Employee Manual".
opment of programs containing state-of-the-art cryptog- http://www.eff.org/Activism/FOIA/
raphy. Ward also promoted the idea of creating secure, nsa_employee.manual.
memorable pass-phrases through "shocking non- [6] "EFF resources on key-escrow".
sense."[4] On 30 March 1995 he aided in the distribution http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Key_escrow/.
of an NSA employee handbook when it was leaked by the [7] C 96-20207 RMW N.D. California, San Jose
on-line magazine Phrack[5] arguing that if the govern- • Potty-Mouth FAQ
ment could not keep safe its own materials, then why • D. J. Leonie Brinkema (E.D. Va.) Order, October 4,
would anyone trust them to maintain a secure key es- 1996 in RTC v. Lerma Civil Action No 95-1107-A. See
crow scheme the NSA had proposed?[6] also Xenu
In 1996 the Church of Scientology sued Ward,[7] al- Persondata
leging that he was responsible for anonymous postings Name Ward, Grady
of material to which the Church claimed copyright. After
Alternative names
several years of litigation in which Ward defended pro
per in forma pauperis and responded to more than 1000 Short description
docket items in the Northern District of California, San Date of birth April 4, 1951
Jose, the lawsuit was eventually settled on 12 May 1998. Place of birth
Ward prevailed on the Church’s trade secret claim result-
Date of death
ing in a dismissal with prejudice, but agreed to a stipulat-
ed judgement on Scientology’s copyright claim. Without Place of death
a finding of liability by Ward, he agreed to pay Scientol-
ogy $200 a month for life. Unusually for legal settlements
with the Church of Scientology, the settlement was not
secret, and contained no restrictions on what Ward could
say about Scientology. The settlement itself became a
source of ongoing legal dispute with two appeals to the
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